Non-refillable bottle.



No. 819,320. PATLNTED MAY 1, 190s.

J. SPINELLI. K NoN-RLPILLABLB BOTTLE.

APPL'IATION FILED NOV. 13, 1905.

Iiwomivr Jbm'pine Winasses: v

CSM f 1W JOHN SPINELLI, OF CHELSEA, MASSACHUSETTS.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

atenten may 1, 1906.

Application filed November 13,1905. Serial No. 287,029.

To @ZZ whom t may concern: i

- Be it known that I, JOHN SPINELLI, a citi- Zen of the United States of America, and a resident of Chelsea, in the county of Suffolk f l and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and 4useful Improvements in y Non-Refillable Bottles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to non-refillable bot- Io tles, and has for its object the production of a device whereby a bottle once filled with a beverage cannot be used again for the purpose of dispensing another beverage without the fact being disclosed to the purchaser.

r 5 The invention consists in certain novel features of construction and arrangement of parts, which will be readily understood by reference to the description of the drawings and to the claims to be hereinafter given.

2O Of the drawings, Figure 1 represents a section of the neck of a bottle in which this improved invention is incorporated. Figs. 2 and 3 represent, respectively, an elevation and an inverted plan of the inner neck-cloz 5 sure. Figs. 4 and 5 represent, respectively, a plan and an elevation of the valve, and Fig. 6 represents a plan of the cork washer interposed between the valve and the inner closure.

3o vSimilar characters designate like parts .throughout the several figures of the drawings.

In the drawings, 10 represents a bottle of any well-known construction provided with 3 5 a neck 1 1, the inner wall of which is provided with a shoulder 12. At the point where the neck 11 oins the bottle 10 the mouth is contracted, as at 13, to form an inclined valveseat 14, with which coperate the inclined 4o faces 15 of the bullet-shaped valve 16. The valve 16 is made cylindrical, of thin glass, herinetically sealed, and on its outer perimeter is provided with a plurality of ribs 17, eX- tending froin the tapered end of said valve to a point beyond the opposite end thereof,

thereby forming projections 18.

The upper end of the valve is provided also with a shallow recess 19. The mouth of the neck 11 is provided with a female thread 20,

i 5o with which the thread 21 upon the inner glass closure 22 coperates. The inner end of the closure 22 is concaved at 23, said concaved portion being provided with a plurality of openings 24, through which the liquid contained within the bottle is adapted to pass.

These openings 24 radiate toward the recess 19. The closure 22 is hollow` and open at the outer end, as at 25, and adapted to permit the insertion of an ordinary cork stopper. A washer 26, of cork, is inserted into the mouth of the neck 11 against the shoulder 12 and the closure 22 is then inserted within said mouth and secured therein against said washer.l

The space between the inner wall 'of the neck 1 1 and the outer wall of the closure 22 is filled with a suitable cement 27, which when hardened will prevent the removal of said closure. When it is desired to dispense beverages from the bottle, the cork (not shown) is removed from the mouth 25 of the inner closure 22 and the bottle is inclined in such position as to permit the valve 16 to move toward said inner closure on the ribs 17, which fit the inner walls of the neck 11. The

projections 18 will limit the movement of said valve toward the inner closure, the ends of said projections coming into contact with glasses from contacting ywith each other, thereby preventing injury to either.

When the valve 16 is in withdrawn position, the liquid will pass through the contracted portion 29 of the neck, through the space 30, formed by the ribs 17, the outer wall of the valve 16,y and the inner walls of the neck 11, then passing between the projections 18, through the perforations or openings 24, out of the mouth 25 into the glass or other receptacle provided to receive it.

When returned to its normal position, the valve will move to close the contracted portion 29 of the mouth thereof, the inclined end 15 bearing against the inclined wall 14 of the projection 13 to close the inlet and prevent the bottle from being filled with another liquid. If the bottle is inverted and an attempt is made to force a liquid into the bottle while in such inverted position, said liquid will act upon the recessed wall 19 of the valve 16 to force it to its seat, thereby closing the contracted opening 29, the openings 24 being inclined in such a direction as to direct the liquid passing from the mouth 25, through said openings 24, into contact with the recessed bottom of said valve.

The valve 16 is made hollow, of thin material, and is hermetically sealed so as to be buoyant and float whenever immersed in liquid, so that if an attempt is made to fill the bottle when inverted in a receptacle full of liquid the valve 16 will fioat and rise in the inverted neck to cause the orifice 29 to be the cork washer 26 and preventing the twoA ICO IIO

closed and prevent the liquid passing therethrough into the main chamber 31 of the bottle.

All of the arts except the cork Washer 26 are made of gllass, so that the liquid contained Within the bottle cannot be contaminated by the devices used to prevent refilling.

It is believed that the invention will be thoroughly understood Without any Jurther description.

l. The combination With a bottle provided With a contracted mouth, of a cylindrical valve provided with a pointed end adapted to olose said contracted mouth and having a plurality of longitudinal peripheral ribs eX- tending beyond the opposite end7 a yielding abutment for said ribs to limit the movement of said valve toward the mouth of the bottle.1

this 10th day of November, 1905.

JOHN SPINELL. Witnesses:

WALTER E. LOMBARD, EDNA C. CLEVELAND. 

